Poem

World Peace

• 06 September 1999

It's the 60th anniversary of the start of the second world war

Prepare for Government (Part Three)

• 16 August 1999

HMS Shuffle

• 09 August 1999

Commentators on the "reshuffle" repeatedly commented on changes in "the engine room"

The Worker

• 02 August 1999

"I'll be directing traffic for years" - John Prescott

Are You Lonesome Tonight?

• 26 July 1999

According to the "Sunday Telegraph", David Trimble shops for shirts and CDs when he's depressed. He is an Elvis fan

North Specific

• 19 July 1999

"We don't need to talk right and walk left, we don't need to talk left and walk right. We simply need to talk straight and do the right thing." - John Prescott (with apologies to Oscar Hammerstein II)

Drive! He Said

• 12 July 1999

Peter Mandelson, looking for rehabilitation, admitted that he hadn't got used to not having a driver

Doomwatch

• 05 July 1999

Nostradamus predicted the apocalypse for this month. The Tories have paid £100,000 to monitor BBC bias

Royal Flush

• 28 June 1999

The new Poet Laureate produced his first poem

Disaster! Disaster!

• 21 June 1999

A cabinet minister described the low Euro-poll turnout, and the low Labour vote as "an absolutely bloody disaster"